Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years by being certified insane. The board of Washington psychiatrists who certified him thus revived many laymen's suspicions about poets in general. Psychiatrists described Poet Pound, awaiting trial for treason (pro-Axis broadcasts from Rome), as "abnormally grandiose, expansive and exuberant in manner," judged him "mentally unfit" to defend himself, had him packed off to a local asylum...
...native, Ezra Pound, 60, was home to stay. The positive manner was gone with the cape and stick; his eyes were rheumy, his beard wilted. His lawyer in the capital's U.S. District Court, where he stood indicted on 19 counts of treason, said senility had made him unfit for trial, and asked that he be placed under psychiatric observation...
Harvard's use of every available play and player in Saturday's 60 to 0 landslide may have been good showmanship, but the very existence of a game against such an unfit opponent as Boston University may yet backfire this Saturday. Anyone who saw the game must realize that B.U. is probably the most appallingly weak eleven that has appeared in the Harvard Stadium since Grover Cleveland sat in the Presidential chair...
Whatever the mannerly Navy court thought, Forrestal and King were sternly convinced, and ruled that both Kimmel and Stark were guilty of "faults of omission" and unfit to hold "any position in the U.S. Navy which requires the exercise of superior judgment." Both officers' careers were thus ignominiously ended...
Subject of countless and traditional stories, some apocryphal and some unfit for publication, Professor Warren's violent temper caused him at one time to be called "Ferdinand." He once told a student, "You're in very shallow water, but you're sinking fast...